Read and Review; September 3 2025

September is off to a truly wild start, with everyone around me facing crises that I can’t be of much help with. I want to hope the rest of the month will be calmer, like things are just getting out of the way early, but since I’m starting school tomorrow and have 2/3rd of a book to write…

Yeah, I’m not expecting miracles!

What I am expecting with great excitement is for more of The Other Face of Sympathy to become available next week, as September 9th rolls around – my official publication date! Some people got their preordered copies already.

I’m a tad terrified. Like, on a logical level, I knew that publishing my book meant people were going to read it… But now my friends are reading it and that’s a weird type of anxiety-inducing. I just hope they don’t hate it!

If you wind up reading it (or are going to) I’d encourage you to leave reviews on the book’s Goodreads, Storygraph, and Amazon pages. Reviews are the best way to connect the book to more readers!

I hope everyone else is having a calmer start to September!